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As part of its recent retail strategy, Dell has announced plans to close 140 kiosks in the United States. Customers can still, however, purchase laptop and desktop computers in more than 10,000 retail outlets worldwide....

Game developer FASA Studio, creators of such games as the MechAssault series and Shadowrun will be closing its doors. However the closuer will now affect support for their newest game Shadowrun as long as people...

As part of an online advertising push designed to leapfrog Yahoo and present a serious challenge to Google, Microsoft has just closed a $6 billion deal with digital marketing company aQuantive. As the software industry...

Microsoft said Thursday it has closed its deal to buy voice recognition specialist Tellme Networks. Tellme CEO Mike McCue remains at Microsoft as head of that unit, working with Zig Serafin, who is the general...

Symantec Corp. is slipping on its target delivery time for the next major upgrade of its security product for enterprises, code-named Hamlet, while it irons out final code wrinkles during beta testing. In May 2006,...

Circuit City is closing stores 62 stores in Canada and seven underachieving stores in U.S. cities as well as reshuffling its corporate ranks. A support center in Barrie, Ontario will also be closed along with...

An audience of 12,000 gathered to watch the final stretch of a three-day game tournament that closed the London Games Festival this weekend. The World Series of Video Games (WSVG) UK Gaming Championship was...

Firefox, the open source web browser, has recently closed an online video competition designed to promote the product. The competition, worth $5000 to the winner, involves creating a short video showing off the...

Smiling Gator Productions announced Tuesday that the Source engine based MMO Twilight War that they had been creating for the past 17 months was now cancelled, and the studio itself was shutting down. Apparently even...

Microsoft have drawn to a close on one of the largest and most public beta programs in its history. The final result, MSN Messenger 7, was released officially yesterday, and offers several improvements over previous...

Atari this week reported decreased revenues for its fiscal third quarter and announced its decision to close publishing studios located in Santa Monica, California and Beverly, Massachusetts as part of what President and CEO Jim...

Bankruptcy almost certain as several studios close and employees told to go home. Following Monday's announcement of a waning loan extension and a possible bankruptcy filing, IGN has learned that Acclaim Entertainment...

Gateway Inc. plans to close its entire network of 188 retail stores next week and lay off about 2,500 staff, the PC maker announced Thursday. Despite the downturn for Gateway, analysts believe the problems are...

Gateway Inc. Thursday said it would close its 188 stores and eliminate about 2,500 retail positions, the biggest move the personal computer and consumer electronics maker has made since it bought eMachines Inc. last month....

Japanese publisher shutters its internal Tokyo developer, establishes new Osaka subsidiary. Capcom announced today that it will be establishing a new studio by splitting a part of its current research and development...

[UPDATE] Unreal II: Special Edition is the final edition from the Virginia-based developer. Most workers look forward to Friday. Unfortunately, that's also the day most firings happen, as was the case at...

After an onslaught of complaints, direct sales computer king Dell Inc. has stopped routing corporate customers to a technical support call center in Bangalore, India. Tech support for Optiplex desktop and Latitude notebook computers will...

America Online's gated Internet community may just have gotten a bit more secure. On Friday, the company said it had turned off Microsoft's flawed Windows Messenger service--a data exchange mechanism for networked...

Internet media software and services provider RealNetworks Inc. said on Tuesday that it had completed its acquisition of Listen.com and that the number of subscribers for its on-demand songs jumped 13 percent from June. RealNetworks,...

Due to financial difficulties, DeskMod has closed it's doors for a temporary, but indefinite amount of time. Read on for more. At midnight central daylight time, DeskMod closed its doors to the public...

A seed program for Apple's Safari Web browser has been suspended following numerous widespread leaks to the Internet. Although beta builds of Safari have been publicly released, Apple was also frequently sending developers newer releases...

Genuity said today that Level 3 Communications's $242 million acquisition bid is the only qualified offer. The declaration effectively eliminates the possibility of another buyer swooping in. The companies, which provide wholesale Internet access,...

China has closed down over 3,300 Internet cafes nation-wide during the past six months for safety reasons, a senior Chinese official has said. The massive overhaul of China's Internet cafes in the last six months...

Online auction powerhouse eBay Inc. closed a security hole in a password-maintenance feature late Tuesday that could have allowed attackers to take over a user's account and commit fraud. The vulnerability existed in the...